US must support Israel against Arab efforts to exterminate it: PennLive letters

Regarding Robert Black's recent lament, the plight of the Palestinians would be sad, indeed, but the fault lies not with Israel, but with their Arab neighbors.

These "neighbors" have held the Palestinians hostage, often using them as human shields, to further their own agenda. In 1948, when that "sacred body" of world governance established both a Jewish State and Palestinian State, one would have thought both sides would have been happy. That was not to be. The Arab world's agenda, calling for the destruction and elimination of the Jewish State, would become paramount.

If one believes in God and the Judeo-Christian persona, this area was to be the covenant-based land promised to Abram and the Hebrew people. Besides, the present day Palestinian was not the original inhabitant either.

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. We, as the leader of the "Free World," have a duty to support the people and nation of the Hebrew State. I would be interested to know if Robert Black, in his travels to Egypt, Syria, Iraq, even Iran, noticed the vast array of Soviet/Russian T-72 tanks, the MIGs, and anti-aircraft weapons dotting the landscape and tarmac? Malaysian Flight 17 has noticed.

One is delusional to believe there will ever be peace in the Middle East. Israel must do what it must to survive. Should they fail, Hitler, reaching from his Berlin bunker, would be the ultimate victor, sixty-nine years after his suicide. God bless Israel.